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New Movies and TV October 2020
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John Lewis: Good Trouble
This intimate account of legendary U.S. Representative John Lewis's life and legacy takes us through his more than 60 years of activism -- from the bold teenager on the front lines of the Civil Rights movement to the legislative powerhouse he is today. A moving tribute to the real-life hero at the forefront of many hard-won battles for lasting change.
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Irresistible
In a small Wisconsin town, retired Marine Colonel Jack Hastings becomes a national star when a video of his protest for undocumented workers' rights goes viral. Wanting to capitalize on a shining moment of liberal support in a traditionally conservative state, top strategist Gary Zimmer taps him for the Democratic Party to win back the Heartland. However, Zimmer is soon pitted against his Republican rival Faith Brewster who will stop at nothing to prevent Wisconsin from becoming a swing state. Hastings's bid for change in a local race morphs into an all-out brawl for America's future.
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Weathering With You
High school boy, Hodaka, runs away from home and moves to Japan's bustling city of Tokyo. During his adventure, Japan is facing an overabundance of rain. Inevitably, Hodaka comes to research urban legends associated with excessive rainfall. His research soon becomes a reality as he meets an orphan girl who appears to be able to control the weather. As the abnormal weather continues to rage on, Hodaka and the young girl's relationship is put to the test by her supernatural ties to the weather.
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Save Yourselves!
A young Brooklyn couple heads to an upstate cabin to unplug from their phones and reconnect with each other. Blissfully unaware of their surroundings, they are left to their own devices as the planet falls under attack.
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Just Mercy
Bryan Stevenson, a lawyer of unfaltering convictions, goes where few are brave enough to wander. Walter McMillian, an inmate on death row, encounters a stroke of good fortune when Stevenson takes on his harrowing case. Though McMillian was charged with murdering an 18-year-old girl, the evidence suggests otherwise. In the hopes of furnishing McMillian with the freedom he deserves, Stevenson immerses himself in the fight for justice. As affairs unfold, Stevenson is faced with seemingly insurmountable roadblocks. With his grit and resilience, he'll stop at nothing to prevail.
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Valley Girl
A preppie California valley girl meets an edgy punk rocker from Hollywood and they fall madly in love despite their many differences. Set against a backdrop of the early 1980s rock scene of southern California, this sweet Romeo & Juliet type of romance pits the friends, family and culture of the girl against the friends, family and culture of the boy. Can Julie and Randy overcome the different worlds they come from to find lasting love? Features many musical numbers of 80s-era rock hits and diverse cast of quirky, colorful characters.
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Bad Education
The Roslyn School District runs like a well-oiled machine under superintendent Frank Tassone's leadership. His charming ability to inspire students, assuage parents' fears, and work with community leaders earn himself and the school an unmatched reputation of integrity. When student journalist Rachel Bhargava begins investigating rumors of monetary gaffes, the community's success takes a shocking nose dive. Forced to answer for his professional and personal indiscretions, his untarnished record will become regarded as the largest public school embezzlement scandal in American history.
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Tommaso
Tommaso is an filmmaker who has emigrated from the United States to Italy, leaving his family behind and building a new life with a woman and their young child. Adapting to a new life of diminished responsibility, he wrestles with his history of addiction while trying to complete a new screenplay. As the story proceeds, Tommaso's frustrations build to a moment of release that threatens to destroy the comfortable life he has built.
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Vitalina Varela
A woman who comes from the island country of Cape Verde travels to the distant city of Lisbon in Portugal to try and discover more about the secret life that she cannot remember. The only evidence she has of it is from her husband, who has recently passed away. There is not much to work with so the woman must depend on her cunning and wits before it is too late.
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First Cow
Struggling to survive in harsh frontier of the Pacific Northwest during the 19th century, a lonely cook and a Chinese immigrant forge an unlikely friendship. Intrigued by a glimpse at the lone cow brought into their territory by a rich landowner, they conspire to make some money by stealing its milk to use in the baked goods they sell to unsuspecting townspeople. As they build their wealth and dream of a better life, their friendship deepens and they risk everything to escape the unforgiving landscape in which they find themselves.
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Superman: Man of Tomorrow
This animated film portrays the early life of Clark Kent before he becomes Superman. It details his struggle to figure out what it means to be human while struggling with being an alien on planet earth. The film deals with Superman's questioning of whether or not humanity is even worth saving.
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True History of the Kelly Gang
Poor Australian teenager Ned Kelly finds himself stuck in indentured service to a bushranger, Harry Power, after his mother can't take care of him any longer. The outlaw tells young Ned that his mother, an Irish widow of a convict and selector with eight children, doesn't want him and that he's to do whatever Power asks of him. A life of crime soon follows. As Ned grows up, he realizes that he wants to be an even greater bushranger than Power. During the 1870's, Ned forms his own gang and recounts in a memoir his life as a notorious, wanted outlaw.
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Escape from Pretoria
Based on the true story of two political captives being held in a South African prison and cut off from the rest of the world. The prisoners realize it is only a matter of time before they are killed and must figure out how to save their lives with no help from the outside. Both men face immeasurable challenges as they race against time and try to figure out how to escape from Pretoria.
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Babyteeth
No parent wants their child to fall in love with the local drug dealer, but Milla, a very sick teenager, does just that. However, her first love interest is not going to slow her down. Milla soon shows all the people in her world what it is like to live and to love when you are terminally ill. While many may have thought her love was just a recipe for disaster, Milla shows them just how wonderful life can be.
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Babysplitters
Jeff and Sarah struggle to decide whether or not to have children. Their good friends, Don and Taylor, are struggling with the same decision. The couples confide in each other and come to an unconventional agreement they will have one baby and share the responsibilities. The situation becomes complicated when they decide that, for practical reasons, Sarah and Don should be the biological parents. High jinks ensue as the four parents-to-be try to get pregnant and navigate their increasingly complex relationships with one another.
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The Tobacconist
A seventeen-year-old tobacco shop apprentice develops a friendship with Sigmund Freud and falls in love with a dancer during the Nazi occupation of Vienna
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Children of the Sea
At the aquarium where her father works, a teenage student meets a pair of mysterious boys who were raised by dugongs and becomes involved in the mystery of the worldwide disappearance of the ocean's fish
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Ride Your Wave
When Hinako moves to attend university, she falls in love with Minato, a firefighter, but when tragedy strikes, Hinako finds she can still depend on Minato in unexpected ways
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Happy Halloween Scooby-Doo!
The mystery-solving gang investigates a local pumpkin patch being brought to life via toxic waste. The leader of this ragtag group of pumpkin villains is none other than Scarecrow, from the DC Comics universe. With the aid of a guest star scientist, the Mystery Machine gets an upgrade with all-new gadgets and features, allowing Scooby and friends to solve the mystery and bring peace to the town.
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Outlander: Season Five
The fifth season of Outlander sees a continuation of Claire and Jamie’s fight to protect those they love, as they navigate the trials and tribulations of life in colonial America. The Frasers strive to flourish within a society which is unwittingly marching towards Revolution, and Jamie must now defend the home they have built together at Fraser’s Ridge while Claire seeks to put her own skills and medical expertise to use in keeping her family together and safe from harm.
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Killing Eve: Season 3
The story of two women with brutal pasts, addicted to each other but now trying desperately to live their lives without their drug of choice. For Villanelle, the assassin without a job, Eve is dead. For Eve, the ex-MI6 operative hiding in plain sight, Villanelle will never find her. All seems fine until a shocking and personal death sets them on a collision course yet again. The journey back to each other will cost both of them friends, family, and allegiances…and perhaps a share of their souls.
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Fleabag: Season 2
Joyful, bleak, poignant and sucker-punch funny, the original cast is joined by a car-crash of new characters as we delve further into the world of Fleabag.
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The American West: Season 1
The American West is a glimpse into the life and times of the American people and how the West was won during the 40 years after the American Civil War all the way through the beginning of the 20th Century. Each episode features the most famous and fearsome outlaws from Buffalo Bill to Jesse James and how their individual stories were woven into the cloth of the fabric of the United States of America.
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Vikings: Season 6 Vol. 1
Ragnar Lothbrok was the greatest, most valiant hero of his time, who embarked on a saga with his Viking brothers. He rose through the ashes of his forefathers to become a Viking King, reigning over the tribes as their fearless warrior and noble leader. Each episode details Ragnar’s ventures to becoming a Norse legend – one that was similar in virtue and faith to the mythical Gods of that age. While his lineage is unknown, rumors spun weaves of magic into his background, as followers often commented that he was the descendant of Odin – the God of war and mighty fighters.
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The Last Kingdom: Season Four
Ambitions threaten the Saxon kingdoms Alfred had once dreamed of uniting. In the wake of his father's death, the new King, Edward, is intent on isolating Wessex and strengthening his reinforcements against possible Dane incursions. Alliances are beginning to fracture as Lord Aethelred of Mercia makes ambitious plans to establish himself as a rival to Wessex. And just as it seems as if peace can be found between the Saxons, a new and unprecedented Dane enemy takes them by surprise. Uhtred begins to realize that his destiny is tied to Alfred's dream and he becomes determined to resolve Saxon struggles before the possibility of a united England slips from their grasp forever.
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Star Trek Picard: Season One
Following the events of Star Trek: Nemesis (2002) and the death of Data, Picard returns in Star Trek: Picard, viewers find that the Federation is a different place. Due to the destruction of Romulus and the inaction of the Federation, Picard protested the decision and retired. One day Dahj appears at Picard's vineyard seeking help and discovers that she is a biological synthetic being based Data who sacrificed his life to save Picard decades before. Shortly after meeting a Romulan death squad kills Dahj and learns that there is a twin. Picard decides to takes on the responsibility of saving the twin and preserve Data's legacy.
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Washington
Washington tells the story of how a fatherless young soldier full of personal ambition becomes a leader of men willing to sacrifice all for the common cause. How a once-loyal British subject rises to battle an empire in a liberty-or-death campaign to forge a new nation. And then how, at the zenith of his power, the victorious general voluntarily steps down, becoming what King George III would call "the greatest man in the world."
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Penny Dreadful: City Of Angels: Season One
In 1938, a vicious murder leaves the entire city of Los Angeles in shock, and two police officers take the duty of trying to catch the criminals responsible, but they do not realize the amount of danger they are getting ready to put themselves in, especially since catching the criminals is the only thing that will calm the city down. The city of Los Angeles will never be the same again.
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Sanctuary: Season 1
Sanctuary is a Swedish psychological thriller series that tells the story of Helene, a woman who travels to visit her sister in a psychiatric hospital high in the Alps, only to have her sister swap places with her and leave her trapped. The facility isn't the bucolic rest home it seems, as it's actually dedicated to the study of psychopaths who all have their own motivations. In addition, the sanatorium's director is a manipulative sociopath himself, and he finds special interest in breaking down Helene's fragile identity.
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The Good Fight: Season Four
After they lost their biggest client, Chumhum, and their founding partner's name was tarnished, Reddick, Boseman & Lockhart was forced to accept an offer by a huge multi-national law firm, STR Laurie, to become a small subsidiary. Suddenly, all of their decisions can be second-guessed by the giant firm that is literally on top of them. While STR Laurie initially seem like benevolent overlords, we find Diane Lockhart and her colleagues chafing at their loss of independence while simultaneously investigating the emergence of a mysterious Memo 618.
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